[Kde-pim] progress

Fri Oct 12 14:39:33 BST 2007

On 10/12/07, Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper <vr at movingparts.net> wrote:
> So, if I may be so bold, I'd like to portray a little bit better image of
> the hard work we've done in KPilot over the last 8+ months than "probably
> won't be ready".  =:)  As I explained in the e-mail I just sent, we actually
> do have a pretty good story to tell, and "probably won't be ready" sounds
> like KPilot won't be at all functional in KDE4.  It actually is, but we
> don't have enough manpower to bring all of the functionality from KDE3
> forward just yet.  So.... maybe something like this?
>
> KPilot's hard-working team of 2.5 have been spending their time getting as
> much done in preparation for KDE4 as possible.  KPilot's lib, daemon, main
> UI, and configuration screens have been ported and are operational.  Due to
> a very aggressive Summer of Code project and lots of Real Life (TM) thrown
> in, not all of the old conduits have been ported yet, which means that
> calendar, todo, and address syncing won't be functional until KDE's
> 4.1release.  The good news is that
> 3.5.8's KPilot is the most stable release to date.  The focus in KPilot for
> KDE4 has been to clean up as much cruft as possible, to establish a solid
> foundation that all of the conduits will now share, and to create a new
> conduit in place to exercise that base code (namely, Bertjan's new keyring
> conduit).

Wow, great. Just copy-pasted that ;-)

> Thanks Jos!!  =:)

Well, thank you, if all app maintainers would send me such pieces, I'd
have a much easier job ;-)

>
> On 10/12/07, Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > OK. So, what about the following text (which isn't exactly how one
> > normally would write a happy release announcement, but we're FOSS, we
> > want to be realistic, right?):
> >
> >
> > The <a href="http://pim.kde.org/">KDE PIM</a> project has been busy
> > with the new infrastructure <a
> > href="http://pim.kde.org/akonadi/">Akonadi</a>, which is planned for
> > KDE 4.1. Their plans for the KDE 4.0 release ranged from improvements
> > (KBlog, Kalarm, <a
> > href="
> > http://mikearthur.co.uk/index.php/2007/08/09/korganizer-journal-improvements/
> > ">KOrganizer</a>),
> > behaving like KDE 3.5 (KAddressbook, KMail) to "probably won't be
> > ready" (KPilot). Users would be able to use KDE PIM applications from
> > the 3.5 series, which have incorporated many fixes and improvements in
> > the last year, thanks to the work of the <a
> > href="http://www.kdab.com/">KDAB company</a> and other developers on
> > the enterprise branch. Those changes, mostly small features and many
> > bugfixes, will <a
> > href="http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-pim&m=119205551912005&w=2">probably
> > be merged back</a> into the KDE 3.5 series for a future release, and
> > the branch is already shipped by default by many distributions. Of
> > course, those improvements also made it into the KDE 4 versions of the
> > KDE PIM applications.
> >
> >
> > Now I would love some details, esp about KBlog and improvements in
> > general. Even just links to a commit. Much more interesting and funny
> > to read. And every other comment is fully welcome.
> >
> > On 10/11/07, Allen Winter <winter at kde.org> wrote:
> > > On Thursday 11 October 2007 5:00:03 am Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> > > > Hey guys,
> > > >
> > > > I haven't seen too many blogs about the KDE pim progress in beta 3.
> > > > Could anyone write something about the current status and the
> > > > improvements done over the last few months? Preferably in a blog, so I
> > > > can link to it ;-)
> > > >
> > > Jos,
> > >
> > > An overview:
> > >
> > > KAlarm is moving ahead quite nicely, thanks to David.
> > >
> > > KOrganizer seems to be working pretty well.. I am doing
> > > some cleanups to the interface and other nits.  Nothing
> > > major.  There are some neat, new features in KOrg, though.
> > > Maybe the folks who wrote them (Brun, Loïc) could
> > > write about those features a little.   I do remember
> > > a couple of blogs from Loïc.
> > >
> > > KMail is blocked by KSSL, which is blocking KIO::TCPSlaveBase,
> > > which is blocking SMTP.  Also, IMAP isn't working.  But, Thomas
> > > and others have put a bunch of work into KMail.  If SMTP
> > > and IMAP were fixed I think KMail would be ok.
> > >
> > > Kontact also needs some love, but i doesn't seem to be that bad.
> > >
> > > I assume KMobiletools is operational.  I never tested it.
> > >
> > > Kevin has been giving KAddressbook some of his time.
> > > Kevin, perhaps a status report?
> > >
> > > KNode... no idea. Volker?
> > >
> > > Akregator.. no idea.  Frank?
> > >
> > > KNotes.  I think Guillermo has KNotes under control.
> > >
> > > KPIlot.. no idea.  vanRijn?
> > >
> > > ..and I still can't compile kitchensync
> > >
> > >
> > > I probably forgot some stuff.  But, basically, there is nothing
> > > earth-shattering.  KMail could be in trouble for the 4.0 Release.
> > >
> > > -Allen
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
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> > > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-pim
> > > KDE PIM home page at http://pim.kde.org/
> > >
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